The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals for forty years, is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Outstanding Corporate Innovator (OCI) Award.

CHICAGO, IL – The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is pleased to announce Charles H. Noble, PhD, Proffitt’s Professor of Marketing and Marketing PHD Program Director at The University of Tennessee, as Chair, effective January 1, 2015. Noble previously served as Vice Chair of the

PDMA recently expanded the lineup at PIM 2014, adding leaders from a host of innovative companies. The interactive nature of the conference gives you the opportunity to network with these leaders as well as other innovation professional

PDMA Board Member Steve Uban spoke recently with Investor's Business Daily on the Innovation Management Standard. Check out the full article here: http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-in-success/081214-712858-product-development-discipline-streamlines-inventive-habits.htm

Great news: PDMA has just released the Product Innovation Management Conference (PIM) 2014 Advance Program! Download your digital copy of the program today to view the conference schedule, , lineup of companies and individuals speaking and the list of confirmed interactive sessions that will give y

PDMA is thrilled to announce of the newest addition to the PIM 2014’s Brain Trust of Keynote Speakers. Udaiyan (UJ) Jatar is the CEO if the Blue Earth Network—a sustainable innovation and brand Incubator, designed to help create and scale transformational products, service and solutions. Blue Earth

PDMA’s Product Innovation Management (PIM) Conference is a once-a-year opportunity to connect with the global product development community and celebrate the practice of innovation. Each year, at PIM, PDMA recognizes innovative companies with sustained quantifiable business results from new products

Bolstered by the increasing rate of change in many markets, organizations are seeking ways to get to market faster, deliver greater value to customers, and better manage costs. Open innovation, with an emphasis on collaborating externally and internally, can help organizations achieve those goals.

During this June 19th webcast, Kevin Schwartz, a co-lead of PwC’s Innovation management consulting practice, will share insights based on PwC’s extensive industry survey of innovation practices released in late 2013.

Kevin will share his perspective on the characteristics of successful innovation a

During this April 3 webcast, Larry Schmitt will share lessons learned from over a dozen years from hundreds of innovation projects. This webcast is for individuals who want the next big thing in the future while maintaining operational excell

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) will hold the 2014 PDMA-UIC Innovation Doctoral Consortium at UIC, Friday, July 18 to Sunday, July 20, 2014.

This webcast will cover four awkward realities and 12 new rules that offer a great summary of topical points for Product Developers involved in B2B organizations. Download a free interactive e-book “Reinventing VOC for B2B” to get a preview of the content. This webcast is appropriate for all levels

The second day of PDMA's Product Development Management Conference (PIM 13) brought attendees together to work on innovation problems such as portfolio management, standing out amongst generic brands, and more.

Monday marked the first day of the official 2013 Product Innovation Management Conference. Hundreds of product development professionals gathered in Phoenix to address the issue of innovating under constraint. Here's an overview of the day:

Thank you to everyone who made the first day of the PDMA PIM 13 Annual Research Forum such a huge success! PDMA’s Annual Research Forum provides a common ground for academics and practitioners from all over the world who are pushing the envelope. Here is a recap of the day's content:

We are seeking principal radical innovators (people who are central to the process of innovation) and managers of radical innovation projects. Radical means new to the world products, as well as new to the firm. It often creates a dramatic change that transforms existing markets or industries...

We are seeking principal radical innovators (people who are central to the process of innovation) and managers of radical innovation projects. Radical means new to the world products, as well as new to the firm. It often creates a dramatic change that transforms existing markets or industries...

The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the leading advocate and comprehensive resource for the profession of product development and innovation, has just announced Baker Hughes and The Sherwin-Williams Paint Stores Group as its 2013 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award.

For the fourth year running, the Carolinas chapter of the PDMA held its annual conference on April 12th. Innovate Carolina 2013, kindly hosted by North Carolina A&T State University, turned out to be an exciting event for more reasons than anticipated!

For some time now, the definition of VOC has been stretched, diluted, and some would even say hijacked, in ways both good and bad. In this highly informative and entertaining webinar, product development guru Gerry Katz will lay out three major trends in the field of VOC, whose advocates he dubs: